ScientificCommons is a project of the University of St. GallenInstitute for Media and Communications Management. The major aim of the project is to develop the world’s largest archive of scientific knowledge with fulltexts freely accessible to the public.

ScientificCommons includes a search engine for publications and author profiles. It also allows the user to turn searches into customized RSS feeds of new publications[1]. ScientificCommons also provides a fulltext caching service for researchers.

ScientificCommons strongly supports self-archiving[3], a legal way for authors to make publications from over 90% of scientific journals available[4], often called the "green road to open access". The maintainers suggest that scientists should refuse to publish with any journal which will not allow them to self-archive[3].

Apart from the metadata scraped from repositories, lexical and statistical methods are used to index keywords[1]. Citations are also extracted from the bulk text[5]. This data is used in the search engine and RSS feeds.